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kiln

[kil, kiln]
–noun
1. a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
–verb (used with object)
2. to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME kiln(e), OE cylen < L culīna kitchen
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kiln   (kĭln, kĭl)   
n.  Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
tr.v.   kilned, kiln·ing, kilns
To process in one of these ovens.

[Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin culīna, kitchen, stove; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]
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kiln 
O.E. cyln, from L. culina "kitchen, cooking stove," unexplained variant of coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). O.N. kylna, Welsh cilin probably are from Eng.
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